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Re: [RFC] header+body caching for POP



On Fri, 05 May 2006, Rocco Rutte wrote:
> I've started writing a patch for CVS head that ports the header caching 
> used in Maildir and IMAP also to POP. In addition, via $imap_cachedir, 
> mutt can cache whole messages and not just headers.  I've also started 
> porting this feature to POP.

POP header caching is very useful for me.


> What this patch does in detail:
> 
>   1. it adds $message_cachedir as generalization from
>      $imap_cachedir which is now a synonym for it
>   2. it adds a manual section on header and body caching
>   3. it enables header and body caching for POP

If $message_cachedir is unset, mutt can't read POP messages.
I suspect this part:
>    if (!(msg->fp = msg_cache_put (pop_data->conn, h->data)))
>      return -1;

Hmm, msg_cache_put should return a temporary fp?

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tamo